Fox's Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children has debuted on top of the box office, with long-weekend takings of $4.8 million.
Sydney-based siblings Spencer and Lloyd Harvey have been named one of the five winners of the 2016 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting for their script, Photo Booth.
APRA AMCOS and the AGSC have unveiled the nominees for this year's Screen Music Awards, with The Dressmaker up in two categories.
Tiding audiences over until the official event returns in 2017, Adelaide Film Festival will run a mini-festival this October.
Palace will open a 15 screen cinema complex on the site of the former Pentridge Prison in Coburg, Melbourne.
The Secret Life of Pets has reclaimed the box office top spot, ringing up almost $3.4 million over the weekend.
The co-production treaty between Australia and Italy entered into force 20 years ago. However, somewhat remarkably, writer-director Ruth Borgobello’s debut feature The Space Between is the first official co-production to result.
Matthew Holmes’s The Legend of Ben Hall will get a national theatrical release from December 1, courtesy of Pinnacle Films.